IIRC, he was actually prosecuted for not having a weighing device which conformed.
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I recently asked for, and was given 1/2 lb of cheese (approx)- in a french supermarket. (this year)
You can buy /sell in any units as long as the measuring equipment is currently approved. So it is quite legal to buy a gallon of fuel from your Shell garage just so long as the pump measures out 4.5486-ish litres
There are loads of things in France sold in imperial measure, so while we are buying TV's in cm diagonal screen sizes, they're sold in France with screen sizes in inches!
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In message , JTM writes
Germany too
you can buy a pound of apples (albeit a 1/2 kilo,), the inch is called the "zoll", and horsepower are PS (Pferdestärke)
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JTM coughed up some electrons that declared:
They do that in China too: "English inches"
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It's even funnier US to UK. A VDU will claim 22" monitor (US),
20" monitor (UK). It's the same one in the box, but US still do tube diagonal, which is now illegal in EU and must be the display area diagonal.